They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
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Gill's Exposition
But I, as a deaf man, heard not,.... He acted the part of a deaf man, and made as if he did not hear the mischievous things his enemies spoke; as Saul, when the sons of Belial spoke against him and…
Barnes' Notes
They also that seek after my life - This was a new aggravation of his affliction, that those who were his enemies now sought to accomplish their purposes against him with better hopes of success, by…
In these verses,
I. David complains of the power and malice of his enemies, who, it should seem, not only took occasion from the weakness of his body and the trouble of his mind to insult over him,…
Cambridge Bible
Pitiless enemies beset him. Comp. Psa 35:4; Psa 35:26.
mischievous things Lit. destructions. See note on Psa 5:9.
imagine Lit. meditate. Contrast Psa 37:26; Psa 37:30.
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